The EMGO+ institute has a number of institute specific resources that strongly facilitate scientific integrity and the quality of all phases of research, including study design, data collection, data analysis and reporting. It is clearly recognized that our role is to provide an environment that encourages good conduct in research and discourages misconduct, and to provide tools that maximize high quality research. However, as the institute directorate has no formal role in the governance of research personnel, the responsibility for actual behavior remains with the department heads.

In this annual report we present with pride and pleasure the core information about who we are, what we do, what we strive for, and what we have accomplished. You will find the information organized in a largely similar way as in 2015. This reflects the standardization and harmonization of the annual report cycle across all VU University / VU University Medical Center research institutes, using the new Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP) 2015-2021 of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) as the main guideline.

We hope you will enjoy reading this report!
Read the Annual Report 2016: download the pdf.

Personal information

Otto Maarsingh is a general practitioner, epidemiologist and senior-researcher at the Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

From 2000 to 2003, he attended the vocational training at the Department of General Practice of the University of Utrecht. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as a general practitioner in the central part of the Netherlands and from 2007 to the present as a general practitioner and staff member at the VU University Medical Center’s General Practice in Amsterdam. In November 2004, he started as a PhD student at the Department of General Practice and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, which resulted in the thesis ‘Dizziness in older patients in general practice: a diagnostic challenge’ (2010). In 2011, he was selected for the International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme (Brisbane Initiative, University of Oxford), a programme that aims to foster and develop future leaders in primary care research (http://www.oxfordleadershipprogramme.co.uk/). July 2011, he received an individual grant from the Stichting Beroepsopleiding Huisartsen (SBOH) for 4 years and started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine and the EMGO+ Institute/VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. In 2013, he completed his education in epidemiology and obtained his registration as Epidemiologist B. July 2013, he obtained a grant from ZonMw/SBOH for six years for his research project ‘Improving the diagnosis of dizzy elderly: a three-arm validation and intervention study in general practice’ (http://www.emgo.nl/news-and-events/news/326/otto-maarsingh-granted-with-225.000-for-dizzy-elderly-project/). December 2015, he obtained a grant from ZonMw/SBOH for his research project 'Internet-based vestibular rehabilitation for older dizzy adults: does it work? A single blind, three arm, randomised controlled trial in general practice' (http://www.emgo.nl/news-and-events/news/814/dr-otto-maarsingh-received-a-240.000-euro-zonmw-grant-for-project-internet-based-vestibular-rehabilitation-for-older-dizzy-adults/). His research specialties are search strategies in large databases, consensus procedures (e.g. Delphi techniques and panel diagnosis), diagnostic systematic reviews, and prediction rules. His main areas of interest are dizziness, older patients, diagnostic research, and especially - as a practising GP - translating theory into practice.

Quality of our research

Welcome, you have reached the website of the EMGO⁺/Amsterdam Public Health research institute.

The EMGO+ research institute has fully merged its research activities into the Amsterdam Public Health research institute (APH), a multidisciplinary institute where researchers of Amsterdam UMC, VU Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam unite.
Please visit the APH website for all the ongoing research activities and up to date information.
The EMGO⁺ website will remain accessible and our project and personal pages will remain hosted at the EMGO⁺ server until a full migration towards the
APH website has been realized, or until alternative applications for e.g. personal pages can be offered.
If you have any questions please e-mail to: amsterdampublichealth@vumc.nl

From now onwards all our EMGO⁺ activities are part of APH. At the same time we will in 2017 also complete all going concern within the EMGO⁺ Institute.Hence the EMGO⁺ website will remain accessible and our project EMGO⁺/APH database and personal pages will remain hosted at the EMGO⁺ server until a full migration towards the APH website has been materialized.